📏 Form Guide

Botev Vratsa

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Botev Vratsa will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 2-0 First League victory against Spartak Varna.

For Botev Vratsa, the goalscorers were José Gallegos (76') and Antoan Stoyanov (90').

Fewer than three goals per game were seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Botev Vratsa have taken part. Breaking down the goal split during that period, their opponents scored a total of 4 and Botev Vratsa managed the sum of 5.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Botev Vratsa:

• have not lost a league tie with Montana in their previous 7 games.
• have left without a victory over Montana in their last 2 league games.

Montana

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Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Lokomotiv Sofia in First League action, Montana will be aiming to make amends here.

The only player to score from Montana was Boris Dimitrov (59'). Spas Delev (19') and Krasimir Stanoev (66') scored for Lokomotiv Sofia.

The stats tell the story, and Montana have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 13 goals in all. At the back, Montana have been far from perfect. Such a pattern might not be continued here, of course.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Montana:

• have not beaten Botev Vratsa when having played them away from home in the previous 3 league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 5 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings going back to 22/05/2013 reveals that these encounters have been a source of anguish for Montana. They’ve not been able to come away with any victories whatsoever while Botev Vratsa have been dominant against them, running out winners in 67% of those matches played.

An aggregate of 10 goals were scored between them in this period, with 8 from Vratsa and 2 being from Montana. That is an average goals per game value of 1.67.

📋 Team News: Botev Vratsa

It looks as if Botev Vratsa should make use of the 3-5-2 system for this game, utilising Lyubomir Vasilev, Arian Kabashi, B. Chorbadzhiyski, Milen Stoev, Romeesh Ivey, Kristiyan Malinov, Iliya Yurukov, Radoslav Tsonev, Ivan Goranov, Jose Gallegos and Martin Petkov.

ℹ️ Team News: Montana

We believe Montana will likely elect for a 4-3-3 lineup, giving starts to Vasil Simeonov, C. Acheampong, Martin Mihaylov, Kostadin Iliev, Solomon James, Anton Tungarov, Ilias Iliadis, Vajebah Sakor, Ivan Kokonov, Boris Dimitrov and Kaloyan Strinski.

💡 Prediction

For this match, we think that Botev Vratsa are likely to be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

In contrast, Montana will be up against it to get shooting opportunities but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be getting the chances to score, too.

We can therefore see a fairly comfortable 3-1 victory for Botev Vratsa at the end of the match.

Renata Leite, 15:15 09/12/2025